The Best Hacker News Posts of October 2010

1

Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox codebutler.com · cdine · 25 Oct 2010

714 pts 341 comments

2

Thank HN: 7 months ago, I asked for help. Now I've got 5 employees. needmoney · 8 Oct 2010

620 pts 114 comments

3

WePay Drops 600lbs of ice in front of PayPal Conference techcrunch.com · sophmonroe · 26 Oct 2010

605 pts 161 comments

4

The reverse job applicant reversejobapplication.com · middlegeek · 19 Oct 2010

518 pts 302 comments

5

Amazon AWS Free Usage Tier aws.amazon.com · wave · 21 Oct 2010

479 pts 137 comments

6

Tell HN: Please continue offering your services (goods, rooms etc) jacquesm · 27 Oct 2010

461 pts 31 comments

7

Show HN: I asked an HN member for feedback and she blew my mind kabuks · 26 Oct 2010

453 pts 120 comments

8

Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic nytimes.com · recampbell · 9 Oct 2010

436 pts 205 comments

9

Resignation letter from Microsoft Employee worldofsu.com · gavingmiller · 15 Oct 2010

433 pts 105 comments

10

Paul Buchheit: Serendipity finds you paulbuchheit.blogspot.com · tzury · 24 Oct 2010

421 pts 54 comments

11

Tell HN: Please stop offering your services swombat · 27 Oct 2010

406 pts 106 comments

12

Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video. landoflisp.com · drcode · 27 Oct 2010

398 pts 108 comments

13

Apple deprecates Java developer.apple.com · tomeast · 21 Oct 2010

386 pts 268 comments

14

Engineer saves man by crashing into him on purpose seattletimes.nwsource.com · allanmac · 23 Oct 2010

383 pts 70 comments

15

After 4 years of self-funded coding marathons I feel "finished", care to talk? exhaustedhacker · 21 Oct 2010

379 pts 184 comments

16

PayPal robbed my bank account jacquesmattheij.com · jacquesm · 18 Oct 2010

378 pts 185 comments

17

How Fake Money Saved Brazil npr.org · nl · 4 Oct 2010

377 pts 131 comments

18

Why Wesabe Lost to Mint blog.precipice.org · Concours · 1 Oct 2010

373 pts 195 comments

19

What We Look for in Founders paulgraham.com · anateus · 22 Oct 2010

362 pts 174 comments

20

Rollover image on your website? That will be $80,000 (please) arstechnica.com · bluesmoon · 14 Oct 2010

352 pts 177 comments

21

Offer HN now at news.ycombinator.com/offers news.ycombinator.com · bradleyjoyce · 27 Oct 2010

342 pts 21 comments

22

Benoit Mandelbrot, RIP kottke.org · bengebre · 16 Oct 2010

338 pts 83 comments

23

MongoDB's lead developer: Foursquare outage post mortem groups.google.com · pc · 7 Oct 2010

329 pts 174 comments

24

Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share gs.statcounter.com · CyrilMazur · 5 Oct 2010

319 pts 67 comments

25

My history of (mostly failed) side projects and startups gabrielweinberg.com · taylorwc · 18 Oct 2010

316 pts 81 comments

26

Brilliant design: RCA student radically improves the UK plug iconeye.com · shedd · 12 Oct 2010

314 pts 140 comments

27

The quest for freedom and safety: Why I donated $100,000 to YesOn19 paulbuchheit.blogspot.com · paul · 29 Oct 2010

311 pts 228 comments

28

How Hacker News ranking algorithm works amix.dk · cristoperb · 11 Oct 2010

311 pts 74 comments

29

A Google Suggest Venn Diagram Generator technomancy.org · rmc · 25 Oct 2010

310 pts 87 comments

30

Tell HN: Your social widgets are losing you visitors right now rarestblog · 8 Oct 2010

306 pts 73 comments

31

Icon search engine iconfinder.com · iconfinder · 25 Oct 2010

304 pts 94 comments

32

Use Vim Like A Pro tottinge.blogsome.com · telemachos · 31 Oct 2010

301 pts 91 comments

33

Google responds aggressively to Oracle Java suit groklaw.net · grellas · 6 Oct 2010

297 pts 122 comments

34

How Do You Stop Sea Captains From Killing Their Passengers? npr.org · RiderOfGiraffes · 29 Oct 2010

292 pts 151 comments

35

The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe benmetcalfe.com · gmurphy · 6 Oct 2010

287 pts 194 comments

36

The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions businessweek.com · petethomas · 21 Oct 2010

285 pts 286 comments

37

How to be a freelance web developer, part 2 ryanwaggoner.com · ryanwaggoner · 7 Oct 2010

284 pts 73 comments

38

Are You A Pirate? techcrunch.com · GVRV · 31 Oct 2010

282 pts 92 comments

39

Embarrassing Flaws That Made My ‘Weekend’ App Possible yieldthought.com · billswift · 20 Oct 2010

279 pts 66 comments

40

The best JavaScript guide ever developer.mozilla.org · alrex021 · 6 Oct 2010

278 pts 53 comments

41

Ewww, You Use PHP? mailchimp.com · moozeek · 22 Oct 2010

276 pts 226 comments

42

To truly become rich, you need to stop acting like it washingtonpost.com · simonreed · 10 Oct 2010

276 pts 194 comments

43

Show HN: Hacker News, automagically organized metaoptimize.com · bravura · 18 Oct 2010

274 pts 36 comments

44

Man jailed over computer password refusal bbc.co.uk · alexandros · 5 Oct 2010

271 pts 228 comments

45

Shocked by online comments, reporter writes profile of hit-and-run victim tampabay.com · gruseom · 2 Oct 2010

271 pts 111 comments

46

OK, here's the thing: this is only the entrance of the rabbit hole. reddit.com · steveklabnik · 19 Oct 2010

264 pts 86 comments

47

For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance theatlantic.com · timf · 29 Oct 2010

259 pts 226 comments

48

Google: What We're Driving At googleblog.blogspot.com · piinbinary · 9 Oct 2010

259 pts 84 comments

49

How to become a freelance web developer ryanwaggoner.com · ryanwaggoner · 6 Oct 2010

256 pts 63 comments

50

Things Paul Graham is wrong about rondam.blogspot.com · imgabe · 26 Oct 2010

254 pts 78 comments

51

How much did Twitteriffic for iOS cost to develop? Craig Hockenberry answers. stackoverflow.com · quux · 13 Oct 2010

252 pts 105 comments

52

Stop Googling railstips.org · helium · 14 Oct 2010

251 pts 67 comments

53

Founders who can't code rokhayakebe · 5 Oct 2010

250 pts 114 comments

54

A/B Testing You'll Actually Use: Optimizely (YC W10) Launches Out of Beta optimizely.com · dsiroker · 13 Oct 2010

249 pts 93 comments

55

Why rebel groups love the Toyota Hilux newsweek.com · bron · 15 Oct 2010

246 pts 160 comments

56

Ask HN: Do we no longer support our members? covercash · 17 Oct 2010

246 pts 117 comments

57

The New Funding Landscape paulgraham.com · anateus · 19 Oct 2010

246 pts 51 comments

58

ZestCash is Not Good. jasonfager.com · jfager · 14 Oct 2010

243 pts 136 comments

59

"Nah, who needs another search engine?" reddit.com · yurisagalov · 23 Oct 2010

242 pts 75 comments

60

Facebook Now Allows You To “Download Your Information” techcrunch.com · ssclafani · 6 Oct 2010

240 pts 109 comments